The Right Track
While making this triangle block, I had so many flashbacks to my first triangle (with diagonal stripes), remembering just how easy it is to get off track with these triangle […]
Triangles
The Hood Ornament
To me, this block definitely looks like a hood ornament on a big 1970s car. Once upon a time I owned one of those big 70s cars, complete with hood […]
The Hand-Crafted Treasures
I started work on this triangle while I was visiting family last month. I hadn’t seen my Mom in about a year, and many of the aunts, uncles, and cousins […]
The 99 Problems
The title for this article popped into my head when I realized that this is block number 126 of 225 in my Dear Jane quilting journey. This means that, now […]
The Volcano
It seems appropriate, on this 41st anniversary of Mt. St. Helens erupting, to write about this triangle block … this cone-shaped vessel of chaos. How did this innocent quilt block […]
The Antiques
This triangle block feels antique … I started it about two months ago, at our first virtual quilting retreat, finished it over a month ago (last year!), and just started […]
The Rocket Ship
The pandemic didn’t allow for an in-person quilting retreat in April or November this year, so a couple dozen of us decided to meet virtually instead. We kept a Zoom […]
The Pandemic Life
Quilting is sure different during a pandemic, sometimes in unexpected ways. For example, I’m embarrassed that I can’t remember what day I finished this block. I’m pretty sure it was […]
The Turtle
Looking at my version of this block, it’s clearly a turtle, but nobody else seems to see it. The official name for the block is … oh, wait. All this […]
The Unexpected Ally
I’ve always been kind of surprised at people saying that they didn’t quilt for months after the death of a loved one. Quilting has such therapeutic value – who wouldn’t […]
The Improvised Tools
I had originally planned to do a square block before tackling this one, but I was going to be on the road a week later and triangles are harder to […]
The Portmanteau
Today I learned that I’ve been using the word “portmanteau” wrong all these years. I knew it was a type of suitcase, and I thought the alternate meaning was “something that […]